A tree symbolizes the ecumenical fellowship of the Lutherstadt Wittenberg with Milwaukee, USA and Meru, Tanzania.

The Evangelical Lutheran Greater Milwaukee Synod in the state of Wisconsin, USA, donated a tree for the Luthergarten, which was planted on December 20, 2016. The synod maintains a close partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Meru Diocese in the north of Tanzania and would like to celebrate not only the Reformation Jubilee but would also like to honor Bishop Akyoo of the Meru Diocese who was a long-standing ecumenical partner and was recently retired. Rev. i.R. Hartmut Barsnick from Ströbeck, the church district of Halberstadt, Germany, works in the South of Tanzania for 6 months every year. For three month he also helps out as a so called Pulpet supply in the Greater Milwaukee Synod and is also part of the Diocesan Working Group “Meru”. Therefore he has been known Ms Julie Starks for many years. She is the one, who coordinated the tree planting campaign on behalf of the Greater Milwaukee Synod and asked Mr. Barsnick to represent Milwaukee in Wittenberg. In addition, an "ecumenical Lutheran tree" will be planted in February in the Meru Diocese and then in Milwaukee in spring.Hartmut BarsnickThe tree is identified as number 380 in the Luthergarten in Wittenberg.

A tree symbolizes the ecumenical fellowship of the Lutherstadt Wittenberg with Milwaukee, USA and Meru, Tanzania.

The Evangelical Lutheran Greater Milwaukee Synod in the state of Wisconsin, USA, donated a tree for the Luthergarten, which was planted on December 20, 2016. The synod maintains a close partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Meru Diocese in the north of Tanzania and would like to celebrate not only the Reformation Jubilee but would also like to honor Bishop Akyoo of the Meru Diocese who was a long-standing ecumenical partner and was recently retired. Rev. i.R. Hartmut Barsnick from Ströbeck, the church district of Halberstadt, Germany, works in the South of Tanzania for 6 months every year. For three month he also helps out as a so called Pulpet supply in the Greater Milwaukee Synod and is also part of the Diocesan Working Group “Meru”. Therefore he has been known Ms Julie Starks for many years. She is the one, who coordinated the tree planting campaign on behalf of the Greater Milwaukee Synod and asked Mr. Barsnick to represent Milwaukee in Wittenberg. In addition, an "ecumenical Lutheran tree" will be planted in February in the Meru Diocese and then in Milwaukee in spring.Hartmut BarsnickThe tree is identified as number 380 in the Luthergarten in Wittenberg.